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American Capital Strategies has invested $165 million in private equity and debt to acquire a minority stake in Geosign Group Holdings Inc., a Canadian search company and publisher of online B2C content. www.acas.com
Allied Capital has acquired a majority interest in Direct Capital Corp., a Portsmouth, N.H.
W.P. Carey & Co. has acquired three cold storage facilities in the Atlanta market, which it will lease back to Nordic Cold Storage LLC on a triple net basis. www.wpcarey.com
Todobebe Inc., a Miami, Fla.-based multimedia company focused on Hispanic parenting, has received an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Palladium Equity Partners. www.palladiumequity.com www.todobebe.com
Madison Dearborn Partners and Michael Eisner's The Tornante Co. have agreed to acquire sports card and bubble gum maker The Topps Company Inc. (Nasdaq: TOPP) for $9.75 per share. The total transaction would be valued at approximately $385.4 million. www.topps.com
Vector Capital has agreed to acquire information security company SafeNet Inc. (Nasdaq: SFNT) for $28.75 per share. The total deal is valued at approximately $634 million. Merrill Lynch is acting as financial advisor to SafeNet on the transaction. www.vectorcapital.com www.safenet.com
H.I.G. Capital has acquired Wexler Video LLC, a Burbank, Calif.-based provider of video production and postproduction equipment and related services to the television industry. No financial terms were disclosed. H.I.G. partnered on the deal with Wexler management and Telecorps Communications, a group comprised of: Rob McConnell, former CEO of Enterprise Software; David Carfolite, former VP […]
KPS Capital Partners has acquired the assets of Bristol Compressors Inc. from Johnson Controls Inc. (NYSE: JCI). No financial terms were disclosed. Bristol Compressors is a Bristol, Va.-based manufacturer and designer of compression technology used in residential and commercial air conditioning and heat pump applications. www.kpsfunds.com
Federal regulators have charged several unnamed individuals with insider trading, related to the proposed $45 billion buyout of energy company TXU. The SEC said in its complaint that “highly profitable and suspicious” purchases of TXU stock options occurred last month, with the proceeding buyout announcement putting the buyers in a position to gain more than […]
The Blackstone Group is considering an offer for carmaker Chrysler Group, according to The Detroit News. Other possible bidders could include General Motors, Cerberus Capital, Carlyle Group, Apollo Management and Ripplewood Holdings. www.blackstone.com